“I have flown the Gilbert Baker Rainbow Flag during Pride for more than 25 years, but this year I stopped.”
Anne Frank was born on June, 12, 1929. If she were alive today, she’d be 92 years old. Her diary is one of the most
La Fragosa taught Mathilde “Missy” de Morny to defy sexist ‘norms’—In rewriting Missy as a “man,” mainstream strips her of her power and denies lesbians their history.
“If we can be revised after we’re dead, by the very thing we fight against while we’re alive, then what are we fighting for?”
“Jennie Hodgers, aka Albert Cashier, is a symbol of defiance and bravery—She dreamed bigger than the world would allow. Rewriting Jennie Hodgers as a “man,” does a great disservice to her legacy, and erases the sexism that led her to make the choices she did.”
“Marsha Johnson, aka Malcolm, was a self-proclaimed gay man, drag queen, transvestite, until his death in 1992… So how did Johnson’s story come to be so drastically revised?”
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